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Popular Post Davkaus Posted July 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, snowychap said: A lot happens in 2 years. Sometimes, unforeseen circumstances force a government's hand, and they can't enact everything they want to. The world is a complex place, but I'm sure they did their best to deliver the outcome that their voters expected. I absolutely believe that if it had been at all possible, they'd have ensured that those two didn't get in either. Edited July 27, 2020 by Davkaus 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 You’ll all remember the govt announcing bike repair vouchers back in April. Then in May, saying the scheme would be up and running in June. Then in June saying it would be with us in 2 weeks. Well the website finally went live this morning. It’s crashed right now, but y’know, for 25 minutes there on 29th July it was up and running. Credit where credit is due. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 29, 2020 Author Moderator Share Posted July 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: You’ll all remember the govt announcing bike repair vouchers back in April. Then in May, saying the scheme would be up and running in June. Then in June saying it would be with us in 2 weeks. Well the website finally went live this morning. It’s crashed right now, but y’know, for 25 minutes there on 29th July it was up and running. Credit where credit is due. Well to be fair, they diverted all their energies into the excellent Track and trace app that they rightly said would be a key part of the fight against corolla fungus and to make it available by the 1st June. So at least we can console ourselves that having such an effective app has helped us stay safe and well and able to now not take advantage of this bike repair scheme. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Its cyclists ..nobody cares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 1 hour ago, blandy said: Well to be fair, they diverted all their energies into the excellent Track and trace app that they rightly said would be a key part of the fight against corolla fungus and to make it available by the 1st June. So at least we can console ourselves that having such an effective app has helped us stay safe and well and able to now not take advantage of this bike repair scheme. World-leading, they are It's just that they didn't explain that these things would be world-leading in their shitness. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 29, 2020 Author Moderator Share Posted July 29, 2020 1 hour ago, snowychap said: they didn't explain that these things would be world-leading in their shitness But we'll get a great Brexit deal. Cake and eat it. Yum, lovely Tory cake. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 46 minutes ago, blandy said: But we'll get a great Brexit deal. Cake and eat it. Yum, lovely Tory cake. it's great that now we've left we can have orange colouring in our food again 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Any early thoughts on the possibles for the 'face of No. 10' job? Could they go full Trump with one of: Tom Harwood Chloe Westley (though she's already fully part of the No 10 machine) Isobel Oakeshott Allison Pearson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 28 minutes ago, snowychap said: Any early thoughts on the possibles for the 'face of No. 10' job? Could they go full Trump with one of: Tom Harwood Chloe Westley (though she's already fully part of the No 10 machine) Isobel Oakeshott Allison Pearson? Kuenssberg, but wouldn’t take the wage drop I don’t think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) 32 minutes ago, snowychap said: Any early thoughts on the possibles for the 'face of No. 10' job? Doing the job already, might as well make it official. Edit: I reckon two posts counts as consensus. Edited July 29, 2020 by ml1dch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 29, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted July 29, 2020 Kuenssberg does the job unofficially anyway... ... Is there anyone outside of government that thinks a hired official liar is a good idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Kuenssberg, but wouldn’t take the wage drop I don’t think. 21 minutes ago, ml1dch said: Doing the job already, might as well make it official. [Kuenssberg pic] 20 minutes ago, Chindie said: Kuenssberg does the job unofficially anyway... I think there's more likelihood of Piers Morgan doing it than Keunssberg - if we're being serious (and yes, to some extent I was being serious with the names I put forward). Edited July 29, 2020 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 9 minutes ago, snowychap said: I think there's more likelihood of Piers Morgan doing it than Keunssberg - if we're being serious (and yes, to some extent I was being serious with the names I put forward). I see a point where she will be working for the Conservatives but this position would not be the right one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 1 minute ago, Seat68 said: I see a point where she will be working for the Conservatives but this position would not be the right one. I agree. Then again I could well be wrong when they come to announce the sucker, sorry, winner in the autumn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) 23 minutes ago, snowychap said: I agree. Then again I could well be wrong when they come to announce the sucker, sorry, winner in the autumn. Favourite is Allegra Stratton. Four years at Newsnight, four years in charge of ITV News, quit earlier this year to be Director of Comms. for Rishi Sunak and married to none-more-in-the-Government-loop journalist James Forsyth. Pretty much the perfect CV for their Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. Edited July 29, 2020 by ml1dch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 Ah, Allegra Stratton. I'll never forget that time when she asked a single mother why she had her child as part of a deeply bullying interview that Newsnight had to apologise for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted July 30, 2020 Author Moderator Share Posted July 30, 2020 15 hours ago, ml1dch said: Favourite is Allegra Stratton. Four years at Newsnight, four years in charge of ITV News, quit earlier this year to be Director of Comms for Rishi Sunak She's doing a very good job. She seems to have done a good job everywhere she's worked. The task of making a coherent case for the incompetent shambles of bluffers, liars, grabbers and effwits running, or should that be ruining, the Country is likely to be beyond the abilities of mortals, even someone as smart and capable as she appears to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted July 30, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted July 30, 2020 The Tory party needs to address it's problem with sex offenders etc etc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Chindie said: The Tory party needs to address it's problem with sex offenders etc etc To be fair, it seems that one of them did, according to the Grauniad article: Quote ... Evidence was also given by the former Conservative deputy chief whip, Anne Milton, who told the court that the young woman had been “acutely aware that if she made a formal complaint she would never get another job in parliament because of gossip”. Milton was put in touch with the woman by another Tory MP at the time, Margot James. Milton interviewed Elphicke alongside the then chief whip, Julian Smith, and ultimately called Scotland Yard. Though that might make the reinstatement of the whip even dodgier and murkier, given that one of their whips appears to be the person who thought there was enough in it to report him to the police. Edited July 30, 2020 by snowychap 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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